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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulA wealthy white industrialist buys a farm, and an unidentified body is found on it
The Conservationist
1974252 pagesDemanding readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 1974
A rich man's farm and a body that is never claimed
Mehring is a wealthy white industrialist in South Africa who buys a farm outside Johannesburg. When a body is discovered on the land, the death is largely ignored by the authorities, and Mehring's hold on the place starts to loosen. It shared the 1974 Booker Prize with Stanley Middleton's Holiday.
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Who
Mehring, an industrialist, and the African workers on his farm.
World
A farm outside Johannesburg in apartheid-era South Africa.
What makes it different
It was a joint winner of the 1974 Booker Prize.
Feel
Spare and ominous.
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